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.\" Copyright © 1995 Raul Miller, Ian Jackson, Ian Murdock
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.\" Copyright © 1999 Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
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.\" Copyright © 2000 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
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-.\" Copyright © 2007-2011, 2013 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
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+.\" Copyright © 2007-2011, 2013-2014 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
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.\" Copyright © 2008-2012 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
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.\"
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.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ of a different architecture from itself. The value \fBforeign\fP means that
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the package is not co-installable with itself, but should be allowed to
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satisfy the dependency of a package of a different arch from itself. The
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value \fBallowed\fP allows reverse-dependencies to indicate in their
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-Depends field that they accept a package from a foreign architecture, but
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-has no effect otherwise.
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+Depends field that they accept a package from a foreign architecture by
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+qualifying the package name with \fB:any\fP, but has no effect otherwise.
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The value \fBno\fP is the default when the field is omitted, in which case
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adding the field with an explicit \fBno\fP value is generally not needed.
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.TP
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@@ -187,8 +187,16 @@ fields is a list of groups of alternative packages. Each group is a list
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of packages separated by vertical bar (or `pipe') symbols, `|'. The
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groups are separated by commas. Commas are to be read as `AND', and pipes
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as `OR', with pipes binding more tightly. Each package name is
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+optionally followed by an architecture qualifier appended after a colon ":",
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optionally followed by a version number specification in parentheses.
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.LP
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+An architecture qualifier name can be a real Debian architecture name
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+(since dpkg 1.16.5) or \fBany\fP (since dpkg 1.16.2).
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+If omitted, the default is the current binary package architecture.
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+A real Debian architecture name will match exactly that architecture for
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+that package name, \fBany\fP will match any architecture for that package
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+name if the package has been marked as \fBMulti\-Arch: allowed\fP.
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+.LP
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A version number may start with a `>>', in which case any later version
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will match, and may specify or omit the Debian packaging revision (separated
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by a hyphen). Accepted version relationships are ">>" for greater than,
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@@ -240,8 +248,11 @@ In the
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.B Breaks
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and
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.B Conflicts
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-fields, the comma should be read as `OR'. An optional version can also be
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-given with the same syntax as above for the
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+fields, the comma should be read as `OR'.
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+An optional architecture qualifier can also be appended to the package name
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+with the same syntax as above, but the default is \fBany\fP instead of the
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+binary package architecture.
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+An optional version can also be given with the same syntax as above for the
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.BR Breaks ,
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.B Conflicts
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and
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Guillem Jover